About Me

My name is Hunter Hammersen, and I knit tiny nonsense. I live in coastal Maine, where I can often be found poking at seaweed with a bit of driftwood or visiting my favorite mossy tree stump. There is almost certainly a rock in my pocket right this minute. If you ask nicely, I might just show it to you.

I’m fat, I swear a lot, and I have ridiculous hair. And I am unapologetically shouty about political stuff. No really, I’m the scary, dangerous feminist your angry uncle rants about on facebook. Here, check this out…abortions are good and everyone should have access to them, trans people are good and should get the support they need, unions are good and more people should be in them, police are bad and should be defunded, fascists are bad and we should stop electing them, racists are bad and we should stop humoring them, and this pandemic is very much not over.

If you buy my work, I will absolutely use your money to support the causes I believe in.

If any of that stuff up there bugs you, I’m not the person for you. And that’s ok! But if that all sounds good? If I sound like your kind of person? Well, then I think we can have some fun!

Keep in touch

You can follow me on instagram, join the mailing list, or support my work on patreon.

Looking for an older pattern?

I started writing patterns in 2009 and spent the next few years releasing several hundred patterns and a dozen books. But by the summer of 2022, I realized that trying to keep hundreds of patterns up to date (and up to my current standard of pattern writing) was simply too overwhelming. I couldn’t do it and still release new things. So I took my old patterns down so I could keep doing new work!

A handful of my very favorites have come back (and a few more may come back later). And of course new patterns have come out since then (and more are underway). But the vast majority of the old patterns are retired and will no longer be generally available.

However, enough folks have asked about some old favorites that I’m planning to make many of the retired patterns available for a few days once or twice a year. If you want to hear when that happens, make sure you’re subscribed to the mailing list or patreon, or keep an eye on my instagram.